Why?
Edit: fixed the meme.
It’s well-known that there are levels of engagement with content, with fewer people doing the more involved things. Most people just scroll past everything. Single digits percentage upvote posts. Fewer go into the comments, and again maybe 10% of those participate in comments. The ratio of every level is different on different platforms, but it’s there.
For platforms with pretty quick flow like Reddit and Lemmy, the ratio naturally falls off hard. Something like Hacker News rewards slower and more thoughtful engagement with content and threads, so I’d guess they have a larger share of active commenters — although OTOH you don’t quite want to show up with mindless predictable comments like prevalent here.
Prior to bots, Reddit observed on many occasions the 90% rule:
90% of users just scrolled
Of the ones remaining, 90% only voted
Of the ones remaining, only 90% left comments
And finally, 90% of those left never posted.So, it’s expected to have 10x more votes than comments. Also I’ve never seen a post with more than like 1500 votes lol
Why do we need to comment on everything? Some things I just agree/like, no comment
Exactly. If we son’t have anything to add besides what the upvote/downvote is already saying, we’d get endless “Same”, “This”, and “No” types of comments.
+1
because we don’t get enough social interaction and we’re desperate to at least have some people read a thing we said online, and ideally actually reply to it
well shit thats sad
Comment
cat
Thank you. Cat back to you.
AAAWWEEEEE THE FOOTSIES!!!
Missed opportunity to say “right back cat-cha”
Probably a “good post, nothing to add” case.
Good post, nothing to add.
Less bots maybe? I’ve noticed this too and it triggers something in me because on reddit that was always a red flag of upvote bots or whatever cheating they used. I don’t think people use those here, but there’s also no bots that comment garbage.
I was thinking probably fewer bots too
Well, bots exist here also as far as I know, but, agree, not in the enormous amounts as on Reddit. And here is no karma farming so people have less need to get approval. Also, I suppose, that author of this post meant posts that do not even require comments like memes.
I comment 2
Share an example or two?
The worst is that one of those comments is me, adding nothing to the conversation saying “same bro lmao”
Same dude, lmao.
Me too dude, lol.
Same bro lmao
same bro lmao
Same bro lmao
No comment needed if it’s that good.
My comments tend to get way more engagement here than on reddit. People are just friendlier. When I’m funny, they make me feel like the man. On reddit you had to piggy-back on top comments just to get any hits, and half of them were just confrontational for no good reason.
It’s also because Lemmy’s sorting algorithms are much better. On Reddit, if you’re more than 6 hours late to a post, comments won’t get any interaction.
You can tell Lemmy is written by socialists, with upvotes being much more evenly distributed and less focused on the top 5% going viral.
You mean one thousand upvotes and a comment? Lol I think the most upvote I have ever seen on a post was like 12k.
Apparently, it’s a little over 7k and it’s about beans. I heard that lemmy will upvote anything. This is literally just a can of fucking beans
that post happened during the time Lemmy had the most active users, so there is that
Also during the time Lemmy was most excited about beans. One of the golden ages, to be sure.
Its depressing that I’m living through another golden age… Last time it was reddit, before that it was msn messenger. I can’t even remember what was before that. Probably chisels and slabs of rock.
There was also the can’t poop guy
Let us not forget the I can’t poop for three days guy. That was just after the reddit api fiasco and helped cement Lemmy’s capacity for collective comedy.
That guy is the lemmy version of “it’s a cylinder”
Before lemmy became a has-been.
What the fuck are you talking about, Jesse?
During the initial reddit migration, Lemmy/Kbin had a larger active userbase than it does now. It fell off a bit after a little while, though its slowly creeping back up there with a more committed community.
But basically there were more users to upvote beans at that point
Same lol. Here since the ‘beginning’
It’s been a long road…
The transition away from “the bad place” has done me a lot of good. I’d only been a lurker and occasionally commented prior. Finding the fediverse Trek community, at least as I initially saw it (old Risa), encouraged me to engage in what has now become a much loved hobby.
Man, I wish the dev of Kbin had let people help him. It was, by far, my favorite instance and style of threadiverse.
No, I don’t really find Mbin the same, sadly.
Just lamenting what was haha
It’s now over 9K. Nice job.
Is that what kicked off the beans era? That was some good times.
Don’t forget the Jeans era
I designed and bought a jeans wrap for my PlayStation controllers because I thought it would be funny for a meme post. They took forever to arrive, looked absolutely awful, and didn’t stay on.
Lesson learned, don’t buy those sketchy upload a picture controller wraps.
Don’t remind me of the jeans era.
Link to post or fake
I deleted my older accounts, and I didn’t post it because it looked really stupid
This was the design, I couldn’t find photos of the actual wrapped controller. It covered the black part of the controller.
My jenes entering the jean pool
I see the same, top all time post with 8112 upvotes
I wonder if it has anything to do with what instances your instance is federated with
That is exactly what it has to do with
Do instances count votes differently or separately? I don’t even know.
Yeah, it’s sort of an odd part of the threadiverse. Every instance calculates based on what they’re notified of which means the age of the server along with what other instances it’s federated with impacts the count
The federation of votes makes sense for potentially mitigating bad actor instances with false votes. Like if a new instance spun up and falsified their votes it could be negated easily by defederating.
Having differing votes is like having differing communities based on subscriptions. Just a necessary side effect of picking and choosing what gets shared when federated.
Good question. How many upvotes does it have on your end?
7.135
@pelespirit @protist im watching from Mastodon and it has zero on my instance
Do all the posts from lemmy show as zero?
Commenting draws attention to yourself, which invites scrutiny and judgement. An upvote is (mostly) anonymous.
Also, upvotes take way less effort, always going to be more of those (unless a fight breaks out in the comments or something)
Can’t speak for everyone but on my phone the a.lemmy.world website is unusable for replies. Half the reply box is covered by a control with a tempting x that closes the entire post and loses my reply. The submit button is hidden under the keyboard. When I finish typing I can hit the check mark above the keyboard which causes the website to zoom to 200% where upon I must find a neutral spot to double click somewhere and look for the post button, otherwise some nerd won’t be able to invalidate my experience.
As someone who uses Sync. I don’t have this problem. Ever.
Didn’t the developers of sync do a take the money and run?
Did they? Does anyone have a read of that?
The app is working and I’ve been testing it since Reddit died
No idea about the drama, but the Sync app, which I also use, hasn’t got an update since March 26, 2024 according to the Play Store.
It feels like it is largely abandonware at this point. I’m just waiting for it to break before I find something else.
Coz we a lazy bunch. Deal with it.
That’s a funny way to say that this place is not full of bots.
Gen X here, can confirm
Whatever
I thought we were supposed to say we are efficient, not lazy.
For real
Show me show me
